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This past week I have been working on this new analytical project and I tried some new stuff. Mostly it was new programming; I’m trying to get to the point where I can just whip up a program to do what I need, but I’m not there yet. It still takes me a couple of…
It’s amazing how big companies want to use people’s work for free. Today I read an article about a science fiction writer who was asked by Warner if they could use his interview for free. (A Scathing, Brutally Honest Rant About Not Working for Free BEST OF PHOTOGRAPHY | FRI, NOV 14 http://pulse.me/s/36dx9F ) Earlier I…
Lately I’ve been reading a lot about people solving hard problems such as saving the world, eliminating poverty, solving climate change. These are BIG, HAIRY problems that won’t be easily eradicated. Most of us don’t deal with stuff like this. But we all do work on hard problems, just on a smaller scale. Right now…
Now I think I know what people mean about being authentic. A couple of days ago I received an email from a guy who posted his comment in the Project Control group of LinkedIn. On the surface of it, he was directing us to a “mystery” blogger who was writing about his ‘day in the…
Now, I’m guilty of making extremely large files that can run pretty slowly because I will work with large datasets. I will download everything in the universe, if I can. I also work on how to present information in a useful, clear and pretty fashion. Making things pretty can create large files. Here are a…
Carl Icahn is back in the news again; he’s agitating Apple to buy back shares as a way of increasing shareholder values. But why should Apple give money to people like him who are providing nothing of value to the company? All Icahn and his ilk are doing is sucking money out of corporations. Instead, that…
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